On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Wednesday 28 July 2004 19:00, Joan Picanyol wrote: > > > > I'm all for announcing it. I never heard of it until last week. I too > > > was told to read it, I was stupid for not reading it, why aren't you > > > reading it > > Me too :o > > [...] > > > > It needs to go out on freebsd-announce IMHO. > > > > And the Handbook as well. > > That's all somewhat beside the point, IMHO (although it really should be > documented in the handbook). It was announced (here), many people saw it, > others didn't. And people will still miss things regardless of how many > places you announce them in. That is not an excuse for not announcing in the appropriate places. > The most effective way to spread the news actually _is_ the process you've > been going through: Someone tells you in a more or less friendly way about > some new thing (perhaps after you've been complaining about something in a > more or less friendly way because you missed an announcement). Just ignore > the bozos who call you dumb and care about the useful pieces of > information. :) Yep, and if it had been sent to freebsd-announce, many more people would have read about it. current_at_ and doc_at_ is insufficient. -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/Received on Wed Jul 28 2004 - 16:51:46 UTC
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